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Book The Last Wolf

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Morpurgo
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-02-15
  • ISBN : 1409012298
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Last Wolf written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Morpurgo has created a sweeping and dramatic story in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This spellbinding tale is complemented perfectly by Michael Foreman's illustrations. Robbie McLeod and a wolf cub, both orphaned, venture far from their birthplace, a land of rebellious fighters and vicious redcoats. There is little constancy in Robbie's adventurous life, save for the companionship of his wolf. But when at last Robbie finds a place where he can peacefully make his home, he knows in his heart that the wolf must find his own natural home too . . .

Book The Last Wolf

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  • Author : Mini Grey
  • Publisher : Red Fox Picture Books
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781849419826
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Last Wolf written by Mini Grey and published by Red Fox Picture Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, Little Red set off into the woods to catch a wolf . . . But the woods aren't all they seem - and are there even any wolves left? Mini Grey re-imagines the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable in an entirely new way. Can Little Red help her new friends in need and recover the wild days of the past? This is a powerful, moving and funny picture book which will have children and adults revisiting its exquisite pages time and time again, and discussing the important message it holds. From the award-winning author/illustrator of The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, The Pea and the Princess and Biscuit Bear.

Book The Last Wolf   Herman

    Book Details:
  • Author : László Krasznahorkai
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2019-12-17
  • ISBN : 0811226093
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book The Last Wolf Herman written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai—“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell—it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, and appalled by a species’s end) is narrated—all in a single sentence—as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender. Herman (translated by John Batki), “a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion,” is asked to clear a forest’s last “noxious beasts.” He begins with great zeal, although in time he “suspects that maybe he was ‘on the wrong scent.’” Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game …

Book The Last Wolf Home

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  • Author : Pat Clark
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2001-07
  • ISBN : 0595174396
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Last Wolf Home written by Pat Clark and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Wolf Home is a story of faith, courage, and love that begins on the day in 1970 that Michael Edwards, an Air Force fighter pilot, is shot down during the Vietnam War. Unknown to Mike, Elena Fernandez, the beautiful Cuban refugee who is his lover, is pregnant with his daughter. Elena, caught in the relentless tragedy of all those who love the missing, sacrifices any chance for happiness by remaining faithful to the vague hope that her lover will return someday. Harry Garland is the war hero who comes home embittered by the abandonment of his missing comrades and the desertion of the people of Indochina. After he drifts away from the Air Force, Harry meets Elena and falls in love for the first time in his life. The love affair comes to a painful ending when Elena discovers that Harry has concealed important details he knows concerning Mike's fate. After Elena leaves him, Harry's life goes downhill, and he eventually returns to Laos and becomes involved in the heroin trade. He discovers Mike on his last trip into Laos, and redeems his wasted life by rescuing Mike and returning him to the woman they both love.

Book The Last Wolf

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  • Author : Jim Crumley
  • Publisher : Birlinn
  • Release : 2012-12-10
  • ISBN : 0857905201
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Last Wolf written by Jim Crumley and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1743, according to legend, the last wolf in Scotland was killed by a huntsman near Inverness. At the time the extinction of wolves in Scotland was celebrated. But since then deer have multiplied in the Highlands, destroying the vegetation on which an array of wildlife depends and creating a barren, treeless landscape. Gradually it has become clear that the entire eco-system has been thrown out of balance by the elimination of a top predator. Now there are calls for a limited reintroduction of wolves into Scotland as a way of healing the damaged land. The wolf has been the victim of black propaganda since ancient times. By tellers of folk tales and historians alike it has been described as a slayer of babies, a robber of graves, a devourer of battlefield dead. In this passionate polemic, Jim Crumley argues that these stories are pure fiction, a distortion of reality which prevents people from thinking rationally about the huge benefits the presence of wolves could bring to Scotland. Now is the time for myths to be dispelled, and for the wolf to return to its old home in the highlands.

Book Lyrical Pieces  Secular and Sacred  from the Home Circle of the Country Parsonage

Download or read book Lyrical Pieces Secular and Sacred from the Home Circle of the Country Parsonage written by Abner W. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Silver Town Wolf  Home for the Holidays

Download or read book Silver Town Wolf Home for the Holidays written by Terry Spear and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday shifter mate romance from USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear that'll have you howling with Christmas cheer! Gray wolves Meghan MacTire and Sheriff Peter Jorgenson plan to spend the rest of their lives together, and what better time to start forever than Christmas when the entire wolf pack is home for the holidays? But both Meghan and Peter are hiding dark secrets that could threaten their future together. With holiday magic in the air and all Silver Town ready to celebrate, Meghan and Peter have to conquer the past if they're to have any hope of celebrating this Christmas together. Praise for Terry Spear's paranormal romances: "A perfect read to get into the right mood for the coming festivities...fun, sweet, steamy."—Fresh Fiction for Silver Town Wolf: Home for the Holidays "Essential reading for werewolf-romance fans."—Booklist for Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply "Ms. Spear has written another wonderful story that illustrates the best of holiday romances... A howling good time and a recommended read."—Long and Short Reviews for A Silver Wolf Christmas

Book Comeback Wolves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Wockner
  • Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781555663650
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Comeback Wolves written by Gary Wockner and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delves into the spirit of the wolf dilemma through a collection of essays and poems from some of the Rocky Mountain region's most prolific writers. Authors such as Susan J. Tweit, Craig Childs, Pam Houston, John Nichols, Kent Nelson, Rick Bass, Stephen Trimble, and Laura Pritchett have contributed works specifically written for this compilation, which creates a forum for writers to voice their opinions, hopes, and concerns for the reintroduction of wolves in Colorado. Forward by Mark Udall, U.S. Representative, Colorado's 2nd Congressional District.

Book The Last Wolf of Ireland

Download or read book The Last Wolf of Ireland written by Elona Malterre and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the frightening stories they've heard about wolves, a boy and girl, living in Ireland in the 1780's, attempt to defy authority and save the last wolf left in the country.

Book History of Butler County Kansas

Download or read book History of Butler County Kansas written by Vol. P. Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Home  from Charles I  to George IV

Download or read book The English Home from Charles I to George IV written by John Alfred Gotch and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogy

Download or read book Genealogy written by William James McKnight and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 5135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.

Book In the Wake of Basho

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yury Lobo
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2016-12-30
  • ISBN : 1524547476
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book In the Wake of Basho written by Yury Lobo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author Yury Lobo this book just happened. After very intense submerging into Japanese culture, history, art and poetry one early morning the whole idea of the book came to him as one piece: to introduce Shakespeare to Japan at least two centuries before it actually happened. The idea (however as crazy as it may sound) is not quite too far away from reality: it could truly have happened that a Roman Catholic Japanese with initial traditional samurai background escaped to Christian Macao in 17th century, where he was introduced to English, which became in time his second mother tongue und through English was captured with the genius of Shakespeare. Of course Haruki Okami's core was still Japanese. Once a samurai, forever a samurai. The tiger doesn't change his stripes. His Basho and Shakespeare-influenced existential poetry is a sort of crossover or fusion of both languages, cultural, poetic and religious traditions of Japan and England. Hokku married with Shakespearean blank verse. Haruki Okami (the fictitious poet) was impressed by Shakespeare like French artists were impressed by Japanese art in the second half of the 19th century which brought impressionism to life. His impressionistic poetry is sort of extended minimalism with more attention to transient details. Important is the architecture of Haruki Okami's verse: 3 lines: long, shorter one and the shortest. It is sort of backward steps or stairway arranged sense wise in ascending order. The reader is kind of going downstairs but actually he is going up. The suspension is growing toward the climatic end and ends up with an ellipsis [...] inviting the reader to fill up the omitted words, connotations and meanings (the reader can find all this intended omissions in extensive Notes which covers a significant part of Japanese and English history, the animal world, religious symbols and traditions).

Book The Mammoth Book of Predators

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Predators written by Alex MacCormick and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't go into the woods today. . . If you're on a cruise, tramping through a forest or holidaying in an exotic location, you are constantly being watched - somewhere close by a creature is lurking, stalking and eyeing your every move. The variety and range of these potential predators is truly astonishing, from Asiatic wolves to rogue elephants, fire ants to sharks, snakes, crocodiles and grizzlies. In this definitive anthology survivors recall their terrifying ordeals, while hunters and other witnesses describe the final bloody moments of victims and their killers. Including: The British climber alone in the mountain wilderness pursued for days by a vengeful bear The African traveller's unhappy encounter with a crocodile A member of the Royal Family's gory meeting with a shark in the Caribbean A tiger breaking out of the jungle to grab a woman from her village

Book The Memory Palace

Download or read book The Memory Palace written by Mira Bartok and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.